Bottle-container



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` APPLICATION FILED MAY I6. 1919- 1, 331,6o7. Patented Feb. 24,1920.

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'HENRY vVJ'ILIBBEJEKJ? AND FRED W. HOELTGE, OF CINCINNATI, CHIC', ASSIGNORSv TO WILBERG BOX COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A FIRM COMPOSED OF HENRY WILDBEBG AND SAMUEL -I. WILDBERG.

BOTTLE-CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2a, i920.

Application filed May 16, 1919. Serial No. 297,660.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, HENRY VILDBERG and FRED W. Hom/ron, residents of the city or' Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State oi' Ohio, and citizens of the. United States, have made certain new and useful Improvements j in Bottle Containers, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to containers adapted for use with bottles, and more particularly the type of bottles used in the sale of milk, buttermilk and the like. It has been th'e practice in recent years to make up such boxes with an open top and bottom, and crossed wire or rods through the inside of the box to lhold the bottles separated from eachother in upright position.

It is the object of our invention to provide a container of this special character which is strong and secure, and holds bottles of the nature albove noted, in a manner to make them quickly and readily available, and secure during shipment or transportation. More particularly, it is our object to provide a bracing member for such boxes which is simple and easily attached and cooperates with the cross rods Ain its operation.

T hese objects we accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more speciically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box withthe side wall broken away to show the construction of the brace.

Fig. 2 is a verticalsection through the box, on line 2-2 of Fig. l. The box is shown as having the four sides, 1, and is open at the top and bottom. On the upper corners of the device are located the angle shoulder plates'2 which are adapted to engage within the walls of another like container upon shipment. Extending lengthwise and crosswise of the container are the rods 3 and l respectively, these rods forming compartments for the reception of milk bottles 5'.

These rods 3 and 4 are securely held in place by passing them through the walls of the container, and riveting the ends as shown at 6. Prior to mounting the rods,

however, they are inserted through the brace which is the more particular concern of this invention.

The brace comprises vertical arms 7, 7, which have knuckles 8 at their upper ends to receive the central cross rod, 4 of the device. J ust below the knuckles are located suitable holes (not shown) to permit the passage of the rods 3, 3.

At the lower ends of the arms 7, they are bent at an angle as shown at 9, and suitably secured to the inverted trough or angle strip l0. This strip l0 straddles the lower central cross rod l, and has slots 11 properly located to permit the passage of the lower lengthwise rods 3 through the slots, but below the said lower cross rod.

The lit of the rods in the bracing device as now described can be made'fairly tight, and it will be observed that the result will be a very firm bracing of the. box, through the interlacing of the cross rods, and the tying of them together.

The number of cross rods, or arms to the brace and the exact central location of the brace or the number of braces used in the device do not form essential parts of our invention. The angle strips at the lower portion of the brace should preferably lit snugly against the sides of the container. The conformation of the box generally forms no requisite featureof the novel device. l

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A brace for bottle containers having bottle compartment forming rods comprising arms adapted to tie together the crosswise and lengthwise rods at the upper portion of the box and a member extending across the box and secured to said arms for tying together the said rods at the lower portion of the box.

2. A brace for bottle containers having bottle compartment forming rods comprising an angle strip adapted to fit over a rod running in one direction across the box, and having slots therein to receive the rods running counter to said-first mentioned rod, in a position of engagement under said first rod.

3. A bra-ce for bottle containers having bottle compartment forming rods comprising an angle strip adapted to t over a rod running in one direction across the box, and

having slots therein to receive the rods runforming rods in a plurality of horizontal ning counter to said first mentioned rod, in a planes extending across the said box, and 10 position of engagement under said first rod, secured to the Wall thereof, and a brace for arms connected to said angle strip, said arms tying said lrods together at a plurality of adapted to receive at another portion thereintersecting points in both of the planes. of two intersecting rods.

4. A container for milk bottles or the HENRY VILDBERG. like comprising lateral Walls, compartment FREUD W. HOELTGE. 

